Bangalore: Many of the lakes in the city have "disappeared" along with their water-spreads due to the rapid and unbridled urbanisation here, a study said.
The research study, published by city-based Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), paints a grim scenario with further worsening of the water-bodies if the state government fails to get its act together.
Interestingly, the available data with the Irrigation Department and the Directorate of Economics and Statistics neither show any decline in the number of lakes nor irrigation
potential created, the ISEC release said today.
"Besides this, the data on several aspects is missing. Even the existing information on various aspects shows wide variations across sources. For instance, the information on
water-spread area of 125 lakes varies across sources," Dr P Thippaiah, the author of the report, said.
The survey found that beds and drainages of several tanks were utilised for residential layouts, construction of roads, public offices and shopping complexes.
All these were done without keeping in mind about the problems during the monsoon, it added.
PTI
